When you hear about small boat arrivals just remember this FACT
The Incident of September 2025: Uncontrolled Landings
On Saturday, September 6, 2025, a significant breach in maritime surveillance occurred when a migrant boat reached the Kent coast near Kingsdown, Deal, without being intercepted by the UK Border Force or the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).[5] This event marked the first "uncontrolled landing" officially recorded since December 2022. While the vast majority of arrivals are detected by radar or aerial surveillance and escorted to the Port of Dover, this specific vessel "slipped through" the multi-layered security net
that means since December 2022 every single migrant that has arrived in the UK were brought here by Border Force or RNLI , only one boat actually touched our shores.
They leave France on a small boat, they get picked up by the French Border force then brought half way across the channel were they meet the UK border force, they then get transferred and they even swap lifej ackets and give them back to the French who then take them back to give them to the next small boat passengers (the same boats the first group used).
The migrants are then brought the rest of the journey to the UK.
We do not have a small boat crisis, we have a controlled movement of people strategic plan.